Local Knowledge and Gender in Ghana / / Christine Müller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Müller, Christine,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. Knowledge between Globalization and Localization --; 2. Doing Research and Writing Wor(l)ds --; 3. Conceptualising Local Knowledge --; 4. Knowledge Transfer over Generations:Continuity and Change --; 5. “Traditional” Institutions as Arenas of Knowledge Struggle --; 6. Social Networking between Women’s Organizations --; 7. The Migrating Knowledge --; 8. Decentralised Political Institutions: Knowledge between Bureaucratising and Lobbying --; 9. Glocalised Practices: Towards a Knowledge Society --; Bibliography --; List of Abbreviations
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839403785; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110463415; 9783110463392
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839403785?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christine Müller.

The emergence of global knowledge societies is recently questioning the meaning and relevance of local knowledge in the context of Southern countries. Women have proved to be the central actors in the multiple channels of local-global networking, using these new social ties for the negotiation of old and new elements of knowledge, scientific knowledge and development discourses. The inherent politicisation of knowledge and the direct objective of transforming societal institutions are not only signs of resistance against global hegemony, but serve for a new definition and for a defence of local culture and of local knowledge.